Apparently, someone forgot to tell Pine Creek that the high school football season hasn't started yet. Or maybe they forgot to tell the Eagles that 2014 had ended.
On Thursday, the two-time Class 4A state champions - winners of 25 consecutive games - looked in midseason form during their...

DENVER - Seeing an opportunity to help make more teams and coaches take notice of the Falcon football program, co-coach Brian Green jumped at the chance to bring a couple players to the inaugural Colorado Prep Football Media Day at the Denver Post on Saturday.
"Over the decades of coaching I've always found it's important to get your...

It won't be an official game, but it'll serve as a nice reminder how close the start of the football season is.
On Thursday, Fountain-Fort Carson will host Pine Creek in a scrimmage, slated to start around 5 p.m.
For the Trojans, it'll be the ninth day of a nine-day camp that prepares the team for the regular season. Coach Mitch Johnson no...

Mackenzie Howie's hope dwindled when a body dropped in front of her.
The Pine Creek High School graduate was running in the 400-meter hurdles final at last year's National Junior Olympics Track and Field Championships when another competitor clipped her hurdle.
The girl tumbled into Howie's lane, requiring Howie to run around her. Howie...

Hunter Doerr wasn't sure what he was in for when his friends suggested they play Polish pingpong.
Doerr found out soon enough. Lose a point, get pelted with the pingpong ball.
The opponent on the other end of the table was one he's all too familiar with, though in a different milieu.
Doerr, who graduated from Air Academy this year, and...

Daniel Carr qualified for his second USA Swimming Olympic trials event on July 15.
The Cheyenne Mountain junior, who already had qualified for the 100-meter backstroke, swam a qualifying time of 2 minutes, 1.73 seconds in the 200 backstroke. The cut time for the trials is 2:03.79.
Daniel Carr, Hunter Doerr turn swimming rivalry...

Liah Davis had been to the University of New Mexico's campus once before.
But it was the second trip that would determine Davis' future.
While at a basketball camp there the week of June 18, Davis knew she'd found her home to be.
Last week, after finding out the Lobos were definitely interested in her, Davis gave a verbal commitment to...

When it comes to basketball, Danielle Page has always defied the odds.
In eighth grade, she barely made the cut for her middle school team, and rode the bench the entire season. But by her senior year at Lewis-Palmer High School, the Monument native's hard work led to playing for the University of Nebraska.
After college, she wasn't...

A former thorn in the side of a local high school power is drawing national recognition.
Christian McCaffrey, who amassed 430 yards of offense and five touchdowns while leading Valor Christian to playoff victories over Pine Creek as a freshman and sophomore in 2010 and 2011, took one of 69 spots on the Doak Walker Award Watch List, it was...

LAKEWOOD - There's no denying that Pine Creek's Reece Hummel has a high tolerance for pain. She proved as much when she grinded through the Class 5A postseason with what turned out to be a broken bone in her right ankle.
The only question was when we would see her back at full strength.
The answer: she's close.
Hummel had the lone goal...